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Monday, July 26, 2010

... Says the drooling mom. A couple of weeks ago, my brother got home with this old chessboard he found at his photography club that was forgotten at the bottom of a drawer. He lended it to Lucas and my 19-year-old nephew taught him the basic rules and pieces moving. He immediately fell in love with it and wanted to play with him - the game took two hours, a patience record for both players!

Since then, he has to play at least once a day with me, my brother or my nephew. It's super-funny to watch his frownings while planning the best moves. I think what mainly attracted him was the "battle" scene he's got in his mind from Harry Potter, and the different moves each piece is allowed to make, making things more dynamic - if this can be said about chess.

What I know is that I play with him and he beats me every time. You see what a great player I am, slooooooow... lol!

The chessboard never leaves the dinner table now, and hours fly while we are over it, eating peanuts or popcorn and trying to checkmate - we never got there yet, though!

Sweet Man and I love to play chess. He was so proud of the fact that he played a guy and beat a guy who played and beat Bobby Fischer. I know too old a reference but there ya go.SM tried to teach our daughter but she never wanted to play...now GK is a different matter. She and her friend across the street play at least once a week. This little girls 18 year old brother plays with SM and sometimes it feels like I am raising those kids too, they are here so much.Good life lessons in chess. Congratulations to your little witch, GK's little bro in Brazil.

I don't even know how to play chess Lucas! :) I should learn how as I do play games with Melody sometimes but more of the Candyland or memory variety so far. I think Harry Potter is better in more ways than we ever realized for younger kids!